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The motorship Teraaka (according to the stamp inscription), Teraka (according to Lloyd's Register, for her predecessor). She was built by Brodogradiliste Titovo at Kraljevica in 1959 as the Opatija, her name being changed to Ninikoria when bought by the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Development Authority in 1968. She has a gross tonnage of 980, net 472 tons. Overall length 211 ft. 4 in.; breadth 31 ft. 10 in., draft 12 ft. 1 lin., depth 20ft 2 in. There are two decks. Originally she was a tourist holiday ship taking visitors around the Dalmatian Islands. In 1974 the operation of the vessel passed to the central Govt., her role being changed from primarily a passenger ship to that of a marine training ship, crewed by officers and trainees of the marine training school. At the time of her transfer she was renamed Teraaka, derived from the legend of a Gilbertese warrior and navigator, from the island of Nikunan, who sailed in a "baurua" (a large Gilbertese sailing canoe) throughout the Gilbert Islands and as far a field as Nauru and the Phoenix Islands. However in the 1975-76 Lloyd's Register she is still listed as the Ninikoria.
SG23 Sea Breezes 9/76

Built under yard No 361 by Brodogadiliste “Titovo” yard in Kraljevica, Yugoslavia for the Jadranska Plovidba, Rijeka.
01 July 1959 launched under the name OPATIJA.
Tonnage 980 gross, 472 net, 628 dwt., dim. 64.4 x 9.7 x 6.2m., draught 3.9m., length bpp 59.2m
Powered by a 6-cyl. Sulzer diesel 1.800 bhp., one screw., speed 15 knots.
1959 Completed.

Used for the service along the Yugoslavian coast to Trieste and Piraeus.
1968 Sold to Gilbert and Ellice Island Colony, and renamed NINIKORIA.
1975 Transferred to the Gilbert Island Government (now Kiribati) and renamed TERAAKA.
Thereafter used as training vessel for the islands Maritime Training School.
A web-site then gives that she was sold in 1975 to Edgard Sebastian Roberts, but I believe that is not correct, what I can remember that there were plans to use her on a later date as a cruise vessel under the name POLYNESIAN PRINCESS by Polynesian Paradise Cruises, from Honduras but if she ever carried that name I am not sure. Anyhow the proposed cruise venture collapsed before. And the POLYNESIAN PRINCESS or TERAAKA was laid up at Ensenada Mexico.

http://www.equasis.org gives for 2005 that E S Roberts from Carson City. Nv. USA is the owner and manager; she is now classed as a yacht IMO No 5263853, and registered in the USA.

2009 Not more mentioned in http://www.equasis.org , fate not found.

Kiribati 1979 1c sg86, scott?. 1980 12c sg112, scott?. 1990 $1 sg325, scott? 1981 1c sgO1

Sources: Navicula, Log Book.

Extensively modified for this use at Smiths Yard in the U.K. Operated until 1980 after receving here 20 year survey in Singapore where her main engine, shaft and bearings were overhauled. Laid up in Tarawa, Gilbert Islands in 1980. Passed out of class in 1983 and was sold. Delivered to Honolulu, HI. and was seized by U.S. Marshal for unpaid crew wages. Auctioned in 1984, purchased by Teraaka Inc. and delivered to Seattle, WA. (Owner: Roberts Edgar Sebastian, Carson City, Nv., USA)
in 2001 converted to private yacht.
(Internet.)